Paper box.



M. H. DAGUE.

PAPER BOX.

APPLICATION FILED 050.19. 1914.

Patented Oct. 19, 1915.

t h M E Wu G .H H M mooeo .1 wwsl q 1.15%.296; 7hpp'lieationfiled'jkeem'ber'w, 1914 Serial N'o.878,167.

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' a citizen of 'th'eUnitd fitatea-i-residi ng at Newport, in the'countyof Jao'ks'en and State particularlytd device of th'is generai' char-V'terlocked in applied adjustment;

acter adapted to be produeed from a single blan-lqrand ;an-.-ob=jcetg.of;the invention is to provide a box having novel and improvedmeans whereby the same may be magine and effectively maintain edRiperative assemblage. 1P i Furthermore, it is an object of the invention' to provide *anove'l and improvedjfbpx of this general characterincluding a supplemental closure medium andwherein such supplementalclosure medium comprises relatively movable sections provided withcoacting means whereby said sections may be in- The invention consiststhe constructlon and in the comblnation and arrangement of the severalparts of my 1mproved paper box whereby certain important advantages areattained and the device 1s rendered simpler, less expensive andotherwise more convenient and advantageous for use, all as will behereinafter more fully set forth.

The novel features of the invention will be carefully defined in theappended claim.

In order that my invention may be the better" understood, I will nowproceed to describe the same with reference to the accompanylngdrawlngs, where1n Figure 1 is a plan view of a blank from which a boxconstructed in accordance with an embodiment ofiny invention is adaptedto be produced; Fig. 2 is a view in perspective of an assembled box:with'the top section shown in closed position.

. constructed in accordance with an embodiment of my invention isadapted to be prodetails of as a supplemental closure member.

Eatented Oct. 19,1915.

duced 'and'of which 1 is a front section, 2.

abottom section, 3 a back section, 4 a

top section, and 5 a tuck flap. The front section 1 is provided with thelongitudinally dis-posed slfits 6 and is also provided with the'endflaps 7, said end flaps? being pro vided with the slits 8 adapted to'have" inserted therethrough the ton'g ues 9 carried by' the'end flapsidof the back section. The end flaps '10 are provided withthe top 11,-on eof such flaps 11 having produeed transe ersely itsoute-r extremity aslit through which is adapted 'tobe' insertedthe locking tongue 14projecting forwardly fromthe outer end .of' the oppositetopflap thereof.9 The bottom-"section 2 is also proe accompanying drawings. The tuckflap 5 is provided with the hook tongue 16 adapted to be insertedthrough the slit 6 of the front section 1 in a manner and for a purposewhich is believed to be self-evident. It may also be well to state atthis time that the tongue 1% is also of hook formation.

In assembling. the device, as herein set forth, the end flaps 7 areadapted to overlie the end flaps l5 and the flaps 10 are adapted tooverlie the flaps 17 so that the tongues 9 may be readily insertedthrough the slits 8. Bythis arrangement, the box is effectivelymaintained in operative assemblage, and in practice has'been found topossess a maximum of strengthand especially at the ends thereof which inthe completed box, and as particularly illustrated in detail Fig. 3, arecomposed ofthree plies or laminations. The top flaps 11 are then inposition to be folded over the openface of the box, as particularlyshown in Fig. 2, and with the tongue 14 disposed through the slit 12,such top flaps are effectively maintained in closed adjustment and servewith advantlage he tuck flap 5 is adapted to overlie the front section 1with the hook 16 thereof disposed through the slit 6 whereby it will bereadily perceived'that the top section 4 will be effectively locked inclosed position. It might be well to state at this time that undercertain conditions it may be advisable to omit ii at'substantially thetransverse center his thought ,to '1 be self-evident that the hooks 14and 16 may be readily and conveniently interlocked Witl1.'their.respective slits 12 and 6'by relative lateral movement 5 between the topflaps 11 and the frontsec? 7 1 tion 1 and the tuck flap 5." r

From the" foregoing description, itfi s' thought to be obvious that apaper box constructed in accordance with my; invention 10 is of anextremely simple and comparativelyI 15 invention is susceptible of some.change. a'nd modification rwithout imaterial' departure fror'nr theprinciples and spirit thereof and for this reasonI do not Wish tobe-under' stood as limiting myself to the precise ar-f 20 rangement andformation of the several parts herein shown in carrying out vmy inr: w 7

I e signature inthe, presence of two witnessesfi f g Monrouigniieu ig Iventionin practice;

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J Abox of the character described '25 ing, a front section provided withend flaps having slots produced therein longitudinally, v

thereof and at their inner extremities,

" rovided With a longitudinally disposed slot, ;a. -.;bottom;sectionprovided with end flaps, a back. section provided with end flaps Vsa-id-'end flaps of the back section being pro vided with top flaps andwith depending tongue's' insertible through the slots of'the end fiapsofthe front section, a topisection, a tuck flap carried by thev topsection, said tuck fiapbeing'provided- With a:hook tongue insertiblethrough the slot of the front section: th l l' Q ld'POI iQn of one ofthe top 4'0 I j flaps bein'g 1 provided adjacent its outer ex;- tremitywith transversely disposed 'slit,' and the] outerportlon of ;thesecondtop .fiap

being providecl with a hook'tongueadaptedi 1 to be inserted through ftheslit of the first mentioned top flap, the end 'flaps' of-the-botiitom-section being of a lengthiless than the end vflaps ofgthe front andback sections,

In "testimony whereof I-' hereunto affiXI my."

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